Vortbrod - Swedish Christmas Beer Bread

Name: Vortbrod - Swedish Christmas Beer Bread
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 3 h
Total time: 4 h
Yield: 2 loaves
Ingredients: 1 7/8 ounces fresh yeast; 1 1/3 cups porter; 1 cup dark beer; 1 7/8 ounces butter; 1/4 cup rapeseed oil; 1/2 cup molasses; 1/2 tablespoon ground bitter orange peel; 1 1/2 tablespoons ground ginger; 1 tablespoon ground cloves; 1/2 tablespoon ground cardamom; 1 tablespoon salt; 5 2/3 cups flour (rye and wheat); 1 1/3 cups raisins

Submitted by Debbie R.

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Ready In:: 4hrs
Ingredients:: 13
Yields:: 2 loaves

ingredients

1 ⁷⁄₈ ounces fresh yeast
1 ¹⁄₃ cups porter
1 cup dark beer
1 ⁷⁄₈ ounces butter
¹⁄₄ cup rapeseed oil
¹⁄₂ cup molasses
¹⁄₂ tablespoon ground bitter orange peel
1 ¹⁄₂ tablespoons ground ginger
1 tablespoon ground cloves
¹⁄₂ tablespoon ground cardamom
1 tablespoon salt
5 ²⁄₃ cups flour (rye and wheat)
1 ¹⁄₃ cups raisins

directions

Dissolve the yeast in a big bowl with porter, beer, oil and molasses.
Melt the butter with the spices and salt. Let it cool a little (it shouldn't feel hot when you put your finger in it) before adding to the yeast mixture.
Mix in the raisins and flour a little at the time and work the dough slowly (by hand or y machine) until it's soft and elastic.
Let the dough rise in the bowl to twice its size under a cloth.
Turn on the oven to 200 C / 400 F / Gas mark 6.
Make 2 loaves of bread, put them in an oven pan and let rise under a cloth for 1 hour.
Bake for about 50 minutes, but lower the temperature to 150 C / 300 F / Gas mark 2 after 15 minutes.
Let the loaves cool on a wire tray under a clean cloth.